River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-09-22
HISTORY OF THE WEEK.

the French codfishing feet, heard from up
10 the present time, report lose OF 30 hVes.
One hundred vessels have been DanlS
damaged and have been withdrawn from
the fisheries. thus losing the september
fishing This viii decrease this season ; caucn
~ go ouintals and in consequence prices
have already advanced 10 per cent. -
schooner supposed TO be the Ocean Brlue, OF
Boston. was found drifting helplessly about
at the mercy of the elements, ana the
bodies of several men floating IN me CABIN
Tue bodies were in decomposed staes. l ne
remainder Of the crew had evidently
abandoned the craft some time pei t 80, "a
else had been lost. The flesh on the heau
of one of the drowned men had been eaten
nearly all away and all the bodies present
ed horrible sight
Philadelphia has been rechristenedthe
Centennial City in the three days observ-
anee of the one hundredth anniversary OF the
Constitution f7S7. The great feature OF tAe
second day of the celebration was the re
view of 5000 uniformed soldiers by fresl-
dent Cleveland and high officers OF TINS anu
other government Inc troops wei - 80 -
the dashing Gen. Phil. Sheridan As near
as could be judged from the stand, the Ioi-
| lowing is about the number cI men partlct
pating in the parade: United states IroOP5'
/ 500: Delaware. one fun regiment fenhs ~.
vania. 500; New Jersey, Loo; Georgia;o9,
/ Connecticut, 100; Massachusetts l;zOo,
/ Maryland, 1000; South Carolina: 100; New
/ Hampshire. $50: Virginia, 500; New Aork,
500; North Carolina, %; Rhode lsiaiiu; ~
Ohio one full regiment; Maine, 4O' west
/ VIRGINIA. 200: Iowa, 80 district OF COLUMBIA,
/ 800: Grand Army, 200; making with thelr
bands aud Others. nearly SoOo- tTpN lara
/ nee and ais staff. at the head Of the GoNer-
nor's foot guards, of Iowa, bowen 10 me
/ President and also TO Mrs Cleveland as n
rode by.
A CHASTITY tragedy was enacted IN
| Calvert county, Md, by ID. b. Coolige' a
f,,utu ~nefas ms VINE infd hta T5eef 3ef6
reading. he had a gun in his hand ana
/ told his wife Is was going 10 shoot her'
/ She spTang 70 her feet and took the gun
/ from him. and her sister Miss Turner. ran
out of the room for help. Before she had
/ 90. to the front door Coolidge had drawn
| his revolver and shot his wife through the
| breast Mrs. Coolidge died instantly 10
make sure of his work, Coolidge opened a
razor and cut her throat; de then started
| down stairs 10 lind Miss Turner. Not ind
/ ing her, be vent 20 his chlldren-s room ana
asked them tn come TO their mothers room
/ to see him die. The children were AFRAID
/ to 90 and Coolidge returned alone TO his
/ dead wife and cut his throat from ear TO
ear, falling dead by her side.
An accident occurred on the Col
Orado Midland II. R, west of Leadville, and
near Lake Ivanhoe, to a construction train
/ carrying 2S7 Iaborers. The train was pass
I ing over piece of marshy ground, where
much difficulty has been experienced IN Sc
| curing a rOadbed, and here the engine sud
denly shot into the ditch. carrying the two
cars ON which the labOrers were seated with
/ il and burying them in a mass OF debris.
/ Harry Banker, chief of the track men, was
caught under the engine and scalded 10
death James Mcmahon and George Roe
were killed by loose rails falling on them,
+ and sixty-one others were more or less Sc
yerely injured. Seven of these may be-
crippled for life, even If they survive
/ At Toledo, o, the residence Of James
B. Dougherty, was damaged to the extent
/ Of 81 900 by a natural gas explosion. The
Gas had lust been introduced into the house,
1 and. through carelegsnesi of the plumber,
had ESCAPED beneath the floor OF the front
/ drawing room. Upon igniting the fire in
l the CRATE an explosion ensued, tearing up
the floor. SCATTERING every window IN the
/ house, demolishing all the doors and blow
I Ing the foundation from beneath the Veran-
da which surrounds the house, and setting
/ fire to the portieFes The filter who lighted
/ the fire was blown 10 the ceiling and suffer
| ed a scalp wound. A chemical engine ex-
/ tinguished the flames.
At Rock Hill, S. c., the Rev. Z. e..
| Price. a methodist minister, was publicly
cOwhided by J. b. johnson, for circulating
scandaIous stories about Johnson's sister.
Friends OF both sides have taken up the
quarrel and more serious trouble Is eX-
pected Price left for North Carolina TO
get married. johnson followed on the
same train and it is believed viii force him
to fight. Price is pastor of a country
church six miles from Rock Hill, and
Johnson is a member of one of the most
respected families of the town,
At LaGrange, Texas. Hon. Rudolph
Hildebrand, ex-senator from that district
nearly 20 wears old, was thrown from his
I carriage and instantly killed. he fell on
I Sis head. resulting in conclusion OF ing
brain. He was prominent reVoiutlonlst
in tie German uprising OF lSis. and was
coupelled to leave Germany. Coming 20
/ Texas in 1850 he at once assumed a leading
D0sItioa I'm his section, which he main
iained to the iast. He leaves large for
tune.
The condemned anarchists at Chi
cago. held a consultation as to whether they
would do any thing to help themselves.
/ Every man voted against a petition for eX-
/ ecutive clemency, and three against an ap-
peal to the supreme court No matter
| what they decide to do themselves, their
/ friends will try to secure a reversal OF ludg-
ment That failing, they will circulate a
petition asking for Communication OF
/ sentence.
Ironwood. Mich, one of the most
prosperous towns of the Gogebic iron range
was pretty nearly destroyed by fire which
broke out from a defective fiue in a res
taurant. Twenty business buildings were
/ burned with various stocks OF merchandise,
hotel and saloon equipments, the total
aggregating $4,000, with small insurance.
The Engineering News has received
details of the great strike of rock salt at
Ellsworth, Kan The vein is 165 thick and
% per cent pure, the other per cent. being
/ lime and magpesia, but no potash. The salt
/ Is pure white and fit for table use on grind
/ inc only. The vein is only 100 feet below
/ the surface.
Lieutenant Governor Waterman has
has taken the oath of office as Governor OF
| California, the executive chair having been
made vacant by the death of Gov. Bartlett
| Gov Waterman, ia his address, strongly
denounced the communists and socialists
as being dangerous 20 American liberty.
A bad wreck occurred on the Atlantic
a Pacific r X, 20 miles from Needless
Cal. The engine and forward half of the
train went through a bridge. Engineer
Frank Thomson was killed, and IL is ru-
mOred that the killed and injured will num-
Der nearly fifty people.
Lieut.. Gov. r. II. Waterman, who
succeeds the late Gov. Bartlett in the Cali
fornia gubernatorial chair, Is a Republican,
aud the only Republican elected on the
state ticket last year. Gov. Waterman viii
remain in office until January, 1891.
Ii Is shown that the losses of the
CLIQUE in the recent San Francisco wheat
deal. reach $500, 900, the Nevada being the
largest loser, on advances made TO the
clique.
Heavy forest fires are reported ra-
ging at Eoehler, Mich, and also in the
Black Lake region. Much valuable hard
wood timber is destroyed.
4 negro who undertook to kill a
young man named Fleming, but instead
shot Mrs Foster. FleTning's sister, was
taken from the cars near Leeds, Alabama,
and hanged to a tree, by fifteen masked
men,
Charles r. Wilson, deputy postmas-
ter of Sterling. IL. was killed at the Ogle
county fair races, Friday. He was driving
his sr5ttiug horse zulu. cOllided with anOth-
er horse and ives thrown upon his head.
The grocery store Of Dominic NJ.
Messina. at New Orleans, was destroyed by
fire. caused 10y an explosion of gunpOwder.
The proprietor, his wife, and their four
children persisted in the flames
At HarrOdsburg, Ind. a desperate